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What? They’re donut holes, Timbits is only from Tim hortons, that’s a trademark name.
It would be like calling all breakfast sandwiches McMuffins dude.
Show a Canadian this picture, ask them what it is, and you will get a 99.9% answer of Tim bits.
You may be technically correct, but you're wrong. Lol.
Guess I'm the 0.1%
Sure, let’s go down to McDonald’s and get “timbits”.
That was because tim hortons was the only place for a while, that’s stopped being the case about a decade ago when other places started offering them too.
I know what you're saying but at the same time, I'm living in the GTA. Everyone I know calls them timbits, correctly or incorrectly.
Genericisation. It happens all the time!
Other examples (that are at least used generically in the UK).
Astroturf, bubble wrap, hoover, hovercraft, jacuzzi, rollerblades and tarmac.
Aspirin
(and bandaids in the US)
Kitty Litter
** heard this one on the podcast Under the Influence Spotify link.
Kleenex, Frisbee (which was actually a pie company), Google
Did you hear the podcast too? I forgot about the Frisbee pie company part of the episode.
I'm not a podcast guy. That's a certified Dad Fact™️ lol
Recently learned that “dumpster” is a brand name for a “skip bin.”
“This skip bin fire of a government agency” just doesn’t have the same ring to it though.
they are mini filled doughnuts and larger than Timbits. its not the same thing, just because its small and round wont make it a timbit.
I've never once heard anyone ever refer to them as anything other than "Timbits", just as I've never heard anyone ask me to pass them a "facial tissue", and I've never heard of "hook and loop fastener" shoes. The word got genericized.
That was because Tim’s was the only place, that’s since been changed a decade ago and hasn’t been the case since then.
It’s not a genericized term like Kleenex and escalator, sorry.
In every place I've been to in Canada and every to every Canadian I've known, yes it is.
Other places absolutely can’t advertise as Timbits, that’s a trademarked name.
Don’t make shit up dude.
I didn't claim that. I don't think you understand what people in this thread are saying.
Other companies can't advertise their products as "Kleenex", but that doesn't stop most people from calling all facial tissues Kleenex.
Most Canadians call them Timbits.
Canada is already a place, what other “places” would you be referring to other than place (stores) like Tim Hortons, McDonalds, etc. in your comment?
Yes Canadians may incorrectly call them Tim Bits, but other places can’t since the trademark is owned by Tim Hortons. No need to lie that other places call it that when they can’t or they would get sued and easily lose dude….
Oh my guy... Places like Calgary, Edmonton, Vancouver, Toronto... Not stores, geographical locations.
As a non-canadian who has never heard the word timbits before, this is the funniest argument I have ever read on lemmy
A weird hill to die on too lol
I see you're new here.
Lemmy trends very young and harder towards people on the spectrum, so I see a LOT of these kinds of takes where someone completely misunderstands something and then absolutely refuses to change their opinion.
Maybe this is an Eng (UK) / Eng (US) issue.
You're arguing that "every place" must mean shops.
I absolutely didn't read it as that, I assumed they meant "other parts of Canada". I mean, Canada is a gigantic country with tons of regional accent, dialect, even language differences.
Might be best to chalk it up to a misunderstanding and move on.
It is in Canada. You show any Canadian the picture in this post, and they will tell you it's a timbit.
Sorry dude, they're timbits
A decade ago when Tim’s was the only place that had them sure, thats changed since.
Nope. Timbits.
Or all hook and loop, velcro.
Or all cotton swabs, q-tips.
Or all face tissues, kleenex.
There's plenty of examples of trademark names being used generically. Coke, hoover, Jacuzzi
Bullshit, I've never directly asked my drug dealer for coke, we use code words.
Coincidentally my drug dealer's code word for me is hoover
Which isn’t the case with donut holes, it used to be because Tim hortons was the only place, that’s stopped being changed over a decade ago.
I'm just happy that the meme is joking about Brits yet the only people arguing in the comments are Canadians
They're called 'timbits' to honour the founder who died in a horrific car accident. All that was left of him were bits of Tim.
Yeah that’s stupid that’d be like calling printable camera film a Polaroid. NO ONE would EVER do that!!!
Or like calling all facial tissue "kleenex"
Let me photoshop this picture of a kleenex to look like it's stuck to a velcro strip...
Google, xerox, velcro, escalator are all trademark names as well, but people use them in a general sense. Sometimes trademark names become so popular that they get used in a general way, I don't know what's confusing you, this is a fairly common phenomenon